Acer TravelMate 5742

Introduction

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Conclusion

the RHEL 6.1 x86_64 works very well on this laptop despite the drivers not detected the bad thing is the resolution (1024×768 max) which is not important (well ,for me at least ) to fixe it you gara find the Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller pci Intel Corporation driver

Other Notes

1- Battery autonomy is about 2 hours and 30 minutes not really good it's better with other OS's
2- good virtualisation support
3- stable system
4-BCM43225 802.11b/g/n pci Broadcom Corporation wl this driver is not automatically detected you gara download the driver source code from official web site of Broadcom Corporation and compile it (this will make your wifi card working )